Drive to the conditions over Queen’s Birthday

Associate Transport Minister Michael
Woodhouse is reminding road users to take care and drive to
the conditions over Queen’s Birthday weekend.

“As we
come into the winter months, driving conditions can get more
challenging. I encourage all those travelling this weekend
to slow down and avoid distractions so that everyone makes
it to their destination safely,” Mr Woodhouse says.

The
official Queen’s Birthday holiday period for 2014 will
begin at 4pm tomorrow and end at 6am on Tuesday 3 June. Last
year the Queen’s Birthday weekend road toll was zero, the
lowest ever.

The most common factors contributing to the
64 reported injury crashes over Queen’s Birthday 2013
were:

This week Police launched an
initiative called ‘Make it to Monday’ for the long
weekend and will again be enforcing a reduced speed
tolerance of no more than 4km/h over all permanently posted
speed limits.

“Over the past three years, on average,
two people die and 79 people are injured every weekend as a
result of road crashes. This is too high a price to pay. As
part of our Safer Journeys strategy we will continue to
strengthen all parts of the road system to reduce the number
of deaths and serious injuries.’’

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